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The Y2K event was quite the fiasco. Sure, there were some legitimate concerns, but it was blown way out of proportion and fear-mongered (what isn’t nowadays?). In the end, “geeks”, computer science/IT/programing individuals, won the war and fattened their bank accounts.

Those roles in colleges (and soon thereafter in the workplace) became over-saturated. Buck late, dollar short.

I can’t recall what I was doing… probably drinking and likely intrigued about the possibilities/implications of that 12-years-early collapse of the world that never came. Not then, nor after… when regularly scheduled.

Of course it was blown out of proportion — those greedy thugs! (lmao).

I just remember mostly everyone freaking out that they didn’t program past 1999 – so they were terrified their banks would just completely shut down!

But being 14 at the time — my mind was a bit too boy crazy to be worried about such nonsense. I was more concerned about attending my first teenage boy/girl party with minimal adult supervision. I was even so lucky to have my much cooler older brother drop me off and pick me up. Pft, parents were so uncool in the days.

He picked me up from the party after midnight and we drove home singing “No Scrubs” in his car.